What is the best way to print screens from an ASP.NET page .NET1.1/.NET2.0

Question

I have seen examples of printing from a windows application but I have not been able to find a good example of any way of doing this.

Answer 1

I've used the print style sheet

here's and article http://alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/ that will go through the way to set that up. Rather than setting up a special page that would need to be maintained as well.

Answer 2

If you just need to print your web page from the client-side use window.print(). Sample could be found here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/newtech2.shtml. I would suggest preparing a special version of your page first with no dynamic content and with a layout which would look nice on print.

If you need to send something to printer on the server-side that would be a little bit more complicated. Check out this MSDN article on how to do the basic printing.

Answer 3

The browser prints your pages. If you need to tweak the page so it looks better on the printer, use CSS @media selectors.

Answer 4

Restating what others have said, you just need to call window.print() in javascript. That and build a separate css for print.